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Let us pray to the gods of All Things Tacky that there is enough blue eye shadow and bad wiggery in this town to sustain the high camp and lowdown-and-dirtiness on display in a pair of fringe shows this week. Though separated by five miles of real estate, the productions exist in the same world of nuttiness. Factory Theater's "White Trash Wedding and a Funeral" — the plot is summed up right there in the title — is the smuttier of the two, thanks to a spectacularly twisted gross-out gag, but it's a fine distinction, really. Hell in a Handbag's"Sexy Baby,"which is set in the world of kiddie beauty pageants, is just as tawdry. If you're...

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